The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Countdown: Time In Outer Space (LP, 1965 Reissue)
- LP
- 1 piece(s)
- 1962
- 12 tracks
- 42 min
- jazz
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Excellent Recording. Excellent Music - Analog - 1962 Stereo Album
Translated automatically,This is a perfect example of jazz music. An even more archetypal album of the cool jazz style; this album defies all the shuddering pausing of Miles Davis, and rather is a languid, smooth and utterly transcendental journey into the most soulful and intelligent characters of musical talent. That space in which the rhythm is composed so completely, so incredibly that it tells a story. This is, in my opinion, the greatest cool jazz album ever made, and one of the best jazz albums ever. This pressing is bright, lively, and positively brimming with deep bold tone. You can feel the music within the hair follicles on your arm, dancing with you on Castilian Blues and Castilian Drums. Nothing can compare to a midnight listening session with a warm cup of tea and a good friend, and I cannot for the life of me comprehend how an original pressing can be obtained for such a low sum. Incredible in all ways. 10/10. Favorite Track - Castilian Drums 🪐🛰🪐
One of my favorite Brubeck albums. Highlights include "Countdown", "Someday My Prince Will Come", "Castilian Drums", "Fast Life" and "Back To Earth". This 1962 stereo pressing sounds good, instrumentation is clearly defined and the soundstage has a realistic club feel, with rich bass and crisp percussion. My copy looks a little rough, but after a wet cleaning, the vinyl plays like a champ, with faint surface noise at times, but no skips.
Fantastic pressing ! Deep deep deep sounding piece of vinyl !
While many would like to see Countdown - Time In Outer Space as another in a series of conceptual events where Brubeck and his quartet would transport listeners across the galaxy and dance us under a blanket of stars with their dynamic measured meters and visionary polytonality, when push comes to shove, Countdown is very boogie woogie, laced with piano strides that will instantly bring to mind the likes of the great Teddy Wilson and Earl Hines. That being said, this wasn’t a resoundingly new event, as much of the music making up this body of work was pulled together from outtakes and extended sessions from Brubeck’s Time Further Out sessions … meaning that there’s really nothing new here from Dave as far as this concept is concerned, where already available material was simply packaged as the ‘next’ album.As the album unfolded, complete with dynamic drumming, suggesting the feeling of rumbling engines set for intimate liftoff, I was keenly taken with the idea that this piece was to be suggestive of a trip into space, featuring the liftoff, breaking free of gravity’s field, and then the free floating buoyant musical bound into the nether regions of our solar system and beyond. Instead, the notion created by the title was just that, a reference to the space race that captivated America during these years, where the music could have referenced anything, with a title that meant nothing.But all that is neither here nor there, as it’s the music that’s most important. So, that being said, let me get this off my chest first, as I’ve never been one who felt that the drums should be featured as a soloing instrument, and there are a lot of drums front and center on the outing. With that out of the way, I would suggest that Brubeck has always been about time and timing, particularly alternatives to the standard and expected 4/4, and that’s what it’s all about when it comes to Dave Brubeck, pushing the 4/4. This time signature has been kind to Dave and he’s been its most eloquent emissary. Though on Countdown, with this in the liner notes, “From the beginning, jazz has felt constrained in the 4 and the overleaping of bar lines along with the pushing at metric barriers being as persistent as the struggle to extend harmonic conception beyond the 1, 4, 5 progression.” With that in mind, Brubeck as always pushed for more both harmonically and rhythmically, diving in on the 4 and surfacing on the angle, playing 3’s agains the 4. While the music is perhaps not original and created for this record, it is rewarding, filled with potentially dangerous and difficult time signatures that include the 11/4, one that on face value would seem not to work, yet it does, with an almost effortless ease here, with each instrument playing to its own rhythm, where in so doing, all of this separateness manages to unify, creating a sonic whole that is a light handed endlessly swirling intoxication that comes off as very satisfying and rewarding.*** I’ve become aware, with additional albums by Dave Brubeck coming into my collection, that I actually don’t need his entire catalog, where all that’s necessary are perhaps three or four of his best recordings, as his records seem to become redundant, where there’s no interplay from record to record, where you come to know what you expect from Dave and he delivers it over and over again. Perhaps the one thing that separates Brubeck’s records, is when you jumped into his groove, as that initial outing will either take you forward or backward for a couple of releases before you too realize that you’ve already got all the Dave Brubeck you’ll ever need, and are happy to live with those albums.Review by Jenell Kesler
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